Rye Golf Course

East Sussex

With a par of 68, and a course that measures over 6,300 yards, Rye has to be one of the toughest courses in the British Isles. The five short holes are outstanding but brutal, with alarmingly elusive elevated greens. The twelve par fours are there for the taking - well, three of them at least. Nine others, yes nine, measure more than 400 yards in length. Bernard Darwin described Rye as such: “Surely there can nowhere be anything appreciably better than the golf to be had at this truly divine spot.”